Areyonga (wasp)

This article is about the wasp genus Areyonga Gauld 1984. For the genus of fossil fish that was mistakenly also named Areyonga Young 1997, see Areyongalepis.

Areyonga
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Superfamily: Ichneumonoidea
Family: Ichneumonidae
Genus: Areyonga
Gauld, 1984
Species:
A. eremica
Binomial name
Areyonga eremica
Gauld, 1984

Areyonga is a genus of the parasitic wasp family Ichneumonidae. It currently consists of only one species, Areyonga eremica, from Australia.[1][2]

The genus has a few distinguishing features: it lacks occipital carina, the lower mandibular tooth is reduced to a vestigial state, and the segments at the base of the flagellum of each antenna are short 'annellar-like'.[1] The describing author Gauld inferred that it was related to the genus Probles.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Gauld, I.D. (1984). "Subfamily Tersilochinae. In: An Introduction to the Ichneumonidae of Australia". Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology. 895: 304–316.
  2. ^ "Catalogue of Life, Areyonga Gauld, 1984". Retrieved 2024-08-29.
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